Gleaming Geardrake
Gleaming Geardrake: Artifact Creature - Drake, Murders at Karlov Manor. Flying When this creature enters, investigate. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {U}{R}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Artifact Creature - Drake
- Colour identity
- Blue and red (UR)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 205
- Artist
- Filipe Pagliuso
- Keywords
- Flying, Investigate
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About Gleaming Geardrake
Gleaming Geardrake is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue and red artifact creature from Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), an expansion set released in February 2024. It is collector number 205 in that set, with art by Filipe Pagliuso. It costs {U}{R} (one blue and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue and red. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. Murders at Karlov Manor is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.24 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-24).
Card text
Flying
When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice an artifact, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.24 (as of 2026-10-24).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Gleaming Geardrake by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Gleaming Geardrake
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) #361 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) #424 | Uncommon | 2024 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Gleaming Geardrake, newest first.
- Some abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Clue". Those abilities trigger whenever you sacrifice a Clue for any reason, not just to activate a Clue's activated ability.
- Clue is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some cards with other permanent types, it's never a creature type, a land type, or anything but an artifact type.
- You can't sacrifice a Clue to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Clue token to activate its own ability and also to activate Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's ability.
- If an effect refers to a Clue, it means any Clue artifact, not just a Clue artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Wrench to pay for Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth's activated ability.
- Some spells and abilities that investigate may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Clue tokens.
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